煙波

Chinese

		cigarette; tobacco; smoke	wave; (Cantonese) ball
trad. (煙波)		煙	波
simp. (烟波)		烟	波

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): yānbō

  (Zhuyin): ㄧㄢ ㄅㄛ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): jin¹ bo¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: yānbō
    • Zhuyin: ㄧㄢ ㄅㄛ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: yanbo
    • Wade–Giles: yen¹-po¹
    • Yale: yān-bwō
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: ianbo
    • Palladius: яньбо (janʹbo)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jɛn⁵⁵ pu̯ɔ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: jin¹ bo¹
    • Yale: yīn bō
    • Cantonese Pinyin: jin¹ bo¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: yin¹ bo¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /jiːn⁵⁵ pɔː⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: 'en pa

Rime
Character	煙	波
Reading #	1/1	1/1
Initial (聲)	影 (34)	幫 (1)
Final (韻)	先 (85)	戈 (95)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open	Closed
Division (等)	IV	I
Fanqie	烏前切	博禾切
Baxter	'en	pa
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/ʔen/	/puɑ/
Pan Wuyun	/ʔen/	/puɑ/
Shao Rongfen	/ʔɛn/	/puɑ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/ʔɛn/	/pwa/
Li Rong	/ʔen/	/puɑ/
Wang Li	/ien/	/puɑ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/ʔien/	/puɑ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	yān	bō
Expected Cantonese Reflex	jin1	bo1

Noun

煙波

1. (literary) surface of water covered with mist

   • 日暮鄉關何處是？煙波江上使人愁。 [Classical Chinese, trad.]
     日暮乡关何处是？烟波江上使人愁。 [Classical Chinese, simp.]

     From: 8th century CE, 1920, trans., Cui Hao, Witter Bynner, trans., The Yellow Crane Terrace 黃鶴樓

     Rìmù xiāngguān héchù shì? Yānbō jiāng shàng shǐ rén chóu. [Pinyin]

     But I look toward home, and twilight grows dark
     With a mist of grief on the river waves.